Great books of the Western World / Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : W. Benton : Encyclopaedia Britannica, c1952.Description: 54 v. : ill., maps ; 25 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 082 G798b v.1 to v.54
LOC classification:
  • AC 1 .G798 1952
Contents:
1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins. -- 2-3. The great ideas. -- 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey. -- 5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes. -- 6. Herodotus. Thucydides. -- 7. Plato. -- 8-9. Aristotle. -- 10. Hippocrates. Galen. -- 11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus. -- 12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius. -- 13. Virgil. -- 14. Plutarch. -- 15. Tacitus. -- 16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler. -- 17. Plotinus. -- 18. Augustine. -- 19-20. Thomas Aquinas.

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"The Great Books is published with the editorial advice of the faculties of the University of Chicago.

1. Robert M. Hutchins.-- 2-3. Mortimer J. Adler. William Gorman.-- 4. Odyssey.-- v.5 Aristophanes.-- 6. Thucydides.-- 7. Benjamin Jowett. J. Harward.-- 8-9 works of Aristotle.-- 10. Galen.-- 11. Apollonius of Perga.-- 12. Munro.--13. James Rhoades.-- 14. The Dryden Tr.-- 15. P. Corneline Tacitus.-- 16. Ptolemy.-- 17. Stephe MacKenna & B.S. page.-- 18. Saint Augustine.-- 19-20. Fathers of the English Dominican province.-- 21. Dante. -- 22. Chaucer. -- 23. Machiavelli. Hobbes. -- 24. Rabelais. - - 25. Montaigne. -- 26-27. Shakespeare. -- 28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey. -- 29. Cervantes. -- 30. Francis Bacon. -- 31. Descartes. Spinoza. -- 32. John Milton. -- 33. Pascal. -- 34. Newton. Huygens. -- 35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume. -- 36. Swift. Sterne. -- 37. Henry Fielding. -- 38. Montesquieu. Rousseau.--39. Adam Smith.--40-41. Gibbon. -- 42. Kant. -- 43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill. -- 44. Boswell. -- 45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday.

46. Hegel. -- 47. Goethe. -- 48. Melville. -- 49. Darwin. -- 50. Marx. -- 51. Tolstoy. -- 52. Dostoevsky. -- 53. William James. -- 54. Freud.

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1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins. -- 2-3. The great ideas. -- 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey. -- 5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes. -- 6. Herodotus. Thucydides. -- 7. Plato. -- 8-9. Aristotle. -- 10. Hippocrates. Galen. -- 11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus. -- 12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius. -- 13. Virgil. -- 14. Plutarch. -- 15. Tacitus. -- 16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler. -- 17. Plotinus. -- 18. Augustine. -- 19-20. Thomas Aquinas.

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